Pierluigi Paganini
March 23, 2020
Hackers are offering for sale on the dark web data belonging to 538 million Weibo users, including 172 million phone numbers. Data of 538 million Weibo users are available for sale on the dark web the news was reported by several Chinese media and users on social networks. 107 million records include personal data and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2020
Expert discovered an Elasticsearch instance belonging to a security firm containing over 5 billion records of data leaked in previous incidents. The expert Bob Diachenko has discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch install belonging to a UK security firm that contained 5 billion records of data leaked in previous incidents that took place between 2012 and 2019. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 21, 2020
The financial technology firm Finastra announced it has suffered a ransomware attack that took down its some of its systems. Finastra, the UK leading financial technology provider, announced that some of its servers were shut down in response to a ransomware attack that the company detected. Finastra provides financial software and services to more than 9,000 customers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 20, 2020
UK printing company Doxzoo exposed hundreds of gigabytes of information, including documents related to the US and British military. Security experts at vpnMentor discovered 343GB worth of files belonging to the printing company Doxzoo that were exposed on an AWS server. The researchers reported their discovery to the company on January 26, but it never […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 17, 2020
Security experts from vpnMentor have discovered two corporate finance companies that leak half a million legal and financial documents online vpnMentor experts uncovered a database exposed online on Amazon Web Services (AWS) that is leaking a huge amount of sensitive legal and financial documents. “Whatever the intended purpose of this database was, over 500,000 highly sensitive and private […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 16, 2020
Hackers have stolen O2 customers’ data from a database run by Aerial Direct, one of the largest UK partners of the telecommunications services provider. Hackers have stolen the data of O2 customers from a database operated by Aerial Direct, which is O2’s largest direct business partner in the UK and has more than 130,000 customers. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 16, 2020
Last week, Open Exchange Rates disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information and hashed passwords for customers of its API service. Last week, the currency data provider Open Exchange Rates has disclosed a data breach that exposed the personal information and salted and hashed passwords for customers of its API service. Open Exchange […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 07, 2020
The world’s largest travel leisure company Carnival Corporation discloses a data breach that took place last year and which exposed the personal information of its customers. Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest travel leisure company, discloses a data breach that took place in 2019. The company is informing customers of the incident, a third-party gained unauthorized access […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 06, 2020
Virgin Media discloses a data breach that exposed the personal information of roughly 900,000 of its customers. Virgin Media discloses a data breach that exposed the personal information of approximately 900,000 customers (names, home, and email addresses and phone numbers). The company reported unauthorized access, on at least one occasion, to a misconfigured and unsecured marketing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 05, 2020
New problems for the wireless carrier T-Mobile that disclosed a data breach that exposed some of the customers’ personal information. The wireless carrier T-Mobile was victims of a sophisticated cyber attack that targeted its email vendor. AÂ data breach notification published by the telecommunications giant on its website revealed that the security breach impacted both employees […]
